I’m always ill after Shakespeare. The Circumlocution Office2022-05-09T12:02:18+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Literature, Shakespeare| Read More
The expression of a man’s face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech. The Circumlocution Office2021-04-30T22:51:03+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Appearance (Person), Expression| Read More
Two goggle eyes whereof one was a fixture. The Circumlocution Office2021-04-05T13:54:22+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Appearance (Person), Eyes| Read More
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-24T12:28:13+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Babies| Read More
That particular part of Snow Hill where omnibus horses going eastward seriously think of falling down on purpose. The Circumlocution Office2021-04-29T22:12:27+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: London, Transport| Read More
A man may call his house an island if he likes; there’s no act of Parliament against that, I believe? The Circumlocution Office2019-04-24T12:28:37+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Home| Read More
There was a literary gentleman present who had dramatised in his time two hundred and forty-seven novels as fast as they had come out—some of them faster than they had come out—and who was a literary gentleman in consequence. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-24T12:28:06+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Books, Copyright| Read More
Gold conjures up a mist about a man. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-24T21:49:10+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Greed| Read More
When I dramatise a book, sir, that’s fame. For its author. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-24T12:27:58+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Books, Copyright| Read More
Shakespeare derived some of his plots from old tales and legends in general circulation; but it seems to me, that some of the gentlemen of your craft, at the present day, have shot very far beyond him. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-24T12:27:54+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Copyright, Shakespeare| Read More
Show me the distinction between such pilfering as this, and picking a man’s pocket in the street: unless, indeed, it be, that the legislature has a regard for pocket-handkerchiefs, and leaves men’s brains, except when they are knocked out by violence, to take care of themselves. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-24T12:27:31+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Copyright| Read More
In the mass of white and upturned faces, the dying wretch, in his all-comprehensive look of agony, has met not one—not one—that bore the impress of pity or compassion. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-24T12:28:50+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Death, Execution, Newgate| Read More
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. The Circumlocution Office2020-04-12T15:27:51+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Alcohol| Read More
It is a pleasant thing to see that the sun has been there; to know that the air and light are on them every day; to feel that they are children, and lead children’s lives; that if their pillows be damp, it is with the dews of Heaven, and not with tears; that the limbs of their girls are free, and that they are not crippled by distortions, imposing an unnatural and horrible penance upon their sex; that their lives are spent, from day to day, at least among the waving trees, and not in the midst of dreadful engines which make young children old before they know what childhood is, and give them the exhaustion and infirmity of age, without, like age, the privilege to die. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-24T12:26:52+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Childhood, Children| Read More
That sort of half-sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society. The Circumlocution Office2022-05-14T13:46:04+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Appearance, Pity| Read More
